"Legend of Father Time" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Title: "Legend of Father Time" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created: January 1, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description: The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
The float features Father Time, Donald Simpson, leaning on his scythe standing in front of a floral hour glass, with Bobby Shields personifying Happy New Year, seated nearby. The float was entered by the Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce. View facing east towards along the Rose Parade route on West Colorado Blvd. probably between St. John Avenue and Pasadena Avenue (which became a freeway underpass) with the tall Orth Storage building (at 238 W. Colorado Blvd.) visible on the right.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1935

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Events
Transportation
Names: Shields, Bobby
Simpson, Donald
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14596122780040
Latitude: -118.15577030181900
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3682
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpbbm
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.